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  • ‘Casanova: the victim of women’

    • August 17, 2019
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    The commonly held belief that Casanova was a callous predator upon women has always been far from the truth and in this article Judith Summers aims to counter that misconception – here.   Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here.  27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely
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  • Casanova’s women

    • November 17, 2018
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      Apart from obscuring so much of what is interesting about him, Casanova’s historical reputation as a womaniser has, ironically, also obscured the nature of his relationship with women.  The great libertine was, in fact, in some ways very atypical when it came to women.  The libertine creed regarded the pursuit of sexual pleasure as
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  • Eighteenth-century women painters in France

    • October 13, 2018
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      Although many critics applauded their new prominence, others lamented the immodesty of women who would display their skills so publicly. Indeed, pamphleteers frequently conflated the exhibition of these women’s paintings with the display of their bodies… Always very well worth exploring - the Met museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History along with the usual
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